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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Aronnax and Conseil finally see Ned Land?
(a) He is swimming toward them.
(b) He is actually standing on the back of the monster.
(c) He is in a small life raft.
(d) He is holding onto the dorsal fin of a porpoise.

2. What does Aronnax fear about the heavy air in the room where they are?
(a) The room is filling up with water.
(b) The oxygen in the room has been depleted.
(c) The people are trying to kill them.
(d) The walls are closing in.

3. What does Ned take Aronnax to view outside the Nautilus one morning?
(a) whales playing around the Nautilus
(b) men outside mining diamonds
(c) giant squid trying to get inside the Nautilus
(d) corpses, some still fresh and even one of a woman

4. What do they see off the coast of Ceylon?
(a) the pearl fisheries there
(b) herds of sea horses
(c) swimming elephants
(d) underwater caves

5. How does the Nautilus sink and rise?
(a) by pumping air in from the surface
(b) by manipulating the amount of water in its reserves
(c) by powerful motors
(d) by heating the water outside the ship

6. What makes Aronnax go get his telescope?
(a) Nemo is using his and Aronnax does not want to bother him.
(b) Aronnax thinks he sees a pod of whales in the distance.
(c) He wants to see if there are any islands nearby.
(d) Nemo and a lieutenant are looking at something he cannot see.

7. What is Ned Land looking forward to at the oyster beds?
(a) finding a way to escape
(b) finding large pearls
(c) eating oysters that evening
(d) harpooning sharks

8. How fast can the Nautilus go?
(a) about as fast as a frigate
(b) about thirty miles per hour
(c) speeds up to fifty miles per hour
(d) speeds up to 100 miles per hour

9. How does Aronnax happen to be in the right place at the right time to be invited to join the hunt?
(a) He is the first scientist to have a sighting of the monster.
(b) Aronnax is in New York City at the height of the controversy about the sea monster.
(c) He is a survivor of the sunken Scotia.
(d) He is lecturing at the University of Florida.

10. What artifact does Nemo show Aronnax that he had recovered from the sea?
(a) a marble inscription from Atlantis
(b) a box of Byzantine jewelry
(c) a tin box with papers of Commander La Perouse
(d) a statue of the virgin Mary

11. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?
(a) a coral mine
(b) a strange coral cross
(c) a new species of eel
(d) a coral eating crab

12. What does Aronnax find in the pearl grotto?
(a) a treasure map left by pirates
(b) the body of a drowned pearl diver
(c) a pearl the size of a coconut
(d) a school of sharks waiting for him

13. Where was the Nautilus assembled?
(a) in the Bermuda Triangle
(b) off the coast of Africa
(c) a warehouse in the south of France
(d) workshops on desert islands in the ocean

14. What does the public speculate the object is?
(a) something from outer space
(b) a mirage, not real at all
(c) a sea monster like the Loch Ness dragon
(d) an island reef, a sea serpent, or a whale of unknown species

15. Who are the two people on board who are not enthusiastic about the search?
(a) The two newspaper reporters are not happy to be on board.
(b) Aronnax and Conseill are fearful about being on board.
(c) Neither Conseil nor Ned Land are excited to be on board.
(d) Capt. Farragut and his frist mate are not happy with the assignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the shape of the Nautilus?

2. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?

3. What repels the savages trying to get inside the Nautilus?

4. What does Aronnax say he sees traveling in the Nautilus?

5. What makes up the forest of Crespo?

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